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AMERICAN LEGION SCRAPBOOKS
1942 - 1963

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 10 of Wilmington was charted September 13, 1919 by fifteen World War I veterans in accordance with US 41 Stat. 284. Post 10 has over 800 members on its roster as of January 1990.

This Collection contains three scrapbooks of ephemeral pertaining to veterans and active military personnel from Wilmington and the surrounding area. Items included in the scrapbooks are enlistment notices; obituaries; memorial lists; achievements attained; POW. lists and other patriotic articles and poems.

These scrapbooks were donated to the William Madison Randall Library by Mr. John J. Burney of Wilmington in 1973.

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Processed by Lana Donaldson Taylor
Special Collections Librarian
Manuscripts Collection
William Madison Randall Library
The University of North Carolina Wilmington
February 12, 1990

Inventory
Manuscript/Box/File

070/1/1   
Various news clippings of POWs, MIAs, returning veterans and obituaries.  Lists of veterans.  Booklet "Lest We Forget..." Celebration pamphlet

070/1
"Scrapbook" of Legion Auxiliary news clips

070/1   
Vanilla Colored "Scrapbook."  Lists of WWII dead, wounded and missing (1945)  Many news clippings of boot camp graduates, assignments and promotions. 

070/1   
Scrapbook with painted front cover.  Wilmington men who died in WWI.  News clips of honored veterans, MIAs, POWs, Liberated POWs, men killed in action, plane crashes, obituaries and related news articles.  Dated and notated.

COPYRIGHT:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States  copyright law.